Printing through Terminal Services

[jbotz]

Just a quick question, really (at least, I hope so). I recently set up a remote site that runs certain programs on a server located in the corporate home office. I am wondering how I can set up the printer at the remote site so that work done on the server can be printed to the printer at the remote site. Thanks in advance.

-J

 

[Zelandakh]

i covered this a couple of months ago in this forum - install the printer locally using a driver that is applicable both to the client OS and windows 2000.

can you provide a bit more to go on?

 

[jbotz]

Sure. The server is a Windows 2000 Advanced Server. All sites are serviced by T1 lines. There is no VPN in place as of yet. The printer is on a print server, functioning over TCP/IP on the remote site's network. Printer driver has been successfully installed on all workstations at the remote site and is working beautifully. I do have the printer shared on one workstation, as I am assuming that I will need to point the server to that workstation somehow. Actually, I guess the question is more how to configure the TS port on the server to point to the workstation.

-J

 

[Jontmke]

In terminal server is a setting to map client printers, make sure that is on, and like the suggestion above, make sure the drivers on both computers are exactly the same.

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[jbotz]

I must be missing something obvious, because I don't see a setting anywhere that relates to printing either on the server or on the client machines. Where should I be looking for this?

 

[breader]

Im a little confused by what you're trying to do.
Are you trying to get the Server to auto create client printers?
Or do you want to make an entery for the printer on the server so that everyone who logs on can use that printer?

 

[jbotz]

I'm trying to create an entry on the server so anyone who logs on can print to that printer.

 

[breader]

From your terminal server. You will have to either:
created a vpn connection between sites, and then install the printers either by browsing to them and adding them, or by using their IP addresses.
Or... If the printers have been made available over the web you can add them through their URL

 

[jbotz]

Well, I guess that really either would work. If I could get the Terminal Server to auto-create the default client printer, it would still take care of the issue. I just need to be able to have all the various users at the remote site be able to print to that printer from within Terminal Services.

 

[jbotz]

Thanks all for your assistance. I found an earlier post that explained how to get the network printers to work in terminal services by naming the Print Server port to an LPT# name, which Terminal Services will load by default.

-J